ACT,
Australia -- Jennifer Dixon's Connections begins
with a brief description of the author's life detailing the
connection to music that she shared with her sister Maureen.
After
losing her sister, during a 500-mile trek: Santiago de Compostela
(commonly known as 'The Camino'), as she was attempting to walk into
oblivion, she experienced the astounding power of music to transcend
her grief and re-connect her with her sister and her own life.
When
her brother-in-law and her mother died, just four years later, the
author embarked on her second Camino and was provided with yet more
proof of the healing power of music and its positive affirmation of
life. The story is peppered with music tracks and these are listed at
the end, together with mention of some of music's other therapeutic
effects.
Though
born in the UK, Jennifer Dixon has lived elsewhere for most of her
adult life. Nonetheless, she is still proud of her Geordie roots.
Currently living in Canberra as an Australian with a strange accent,
Jennifer is married and has two grown-up children. She has worked in
France, Germany and Italy. She has also lived in Spain, Nepal,
Thailand, Zimbabwe and Mexico. Jennifer has a degree in Sociology and
a diploma in Counselling Theories and Skills and has worked variously
in several bi-lingual secretarial positions within Europe, as a Court
Reporter, and as an Administrative Assistant in Social Services (UK).
She earned a Black Belt in judo at nineteen; has walked the 500-mile
Camino (Santiago de Compostela), in Spain, twice; plays the guitar,
dabbles in painting; adores languages and etymology; is very
attracted to the culinary arts; cannot live without abundant laughter
and, regards music as a miraculous and indispensable gift of the
universe.
Genre
- Music, Life-force, Connections, Poetry, Travel, Grief, Walking,
Re-evaluating, Dreams, Revelations, Thermodynamics, Re-connection,
Healing
Connections
ISBN 9781506905006, published by First
Edition Design Publishing, is available on-line
wherever ebooks are sold. The 244 page print book version, ISBN
9781506904993 is published by First Edition Design Publishing
(http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com)
and distributed worldwide to online booksellers.
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Contact:
Jennifer
Dixon
+1(941)921-2607
